Captain George Hely-Hutchinson Almond

Captain Almond, R.A.M.C., was born in February 1877, and at Loretto 1892-97. He was a Prefect and played in the XV. He went to Hertford College, Oxon, but left the University to serve with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa. He returned and took his B.A. in 1902 and became M.R.C.S. (E) L.R.C.P. in 1906. He was then appointed House Physician at St. Bartholomew`s Hospital. At the outbreak of war he joined the R.A.M.C. and became a pathologist at a Base Hospital in France. During the great German offensive in 1918 regimental medical officers were urgently needed, and Captain Almond was sent to the 4th Dragoon Guards in the front line. He was killed, together with his Colonel and several others, by a bomb on August 9th 1918, at Caix.

2nd Lieutenant Henry Tristam Almond

2nd Lieutenant Almond, The Gordon Highlanders, Head`s second son; universally known as "Hadge"; was born in December 1880 and at Loretto 1891-1901. He was a Prefect and played in the XV. He joined the Rhodesian Civil Service, and at the outbreak of war was Assistant Magistrate at Victoria. He applied for leave, but this could not be granted at once. Eventually he got home, obtained a commission in the Gordon Highlanders, and served at Aberdeen and at the Machine Gun School of Instruction at Grantham. In February 1916 he went to France in charge of a Machine Gun Section, and was killed by a German sniper on March 31st, 1916, near Carnoy.

LIEUTENANT DAVID ANDERSON,

LIEUTENANT DAVID ANDERSON, M.C., 8th (Service) Battalion. The Black Watch, attached 44th Trench Mortar Battery, was born in February 1887, and was at Loretto from 1900 to 1906. After leaving school he became an Estate Agent in Lancashire. After the declaration of war he obtained a commission in the Black Watch, and was later attached to the 44th Trench Mortar Battery. On May 23, 1917, during an action, Lieut. Anderson was wounded in the thigh. He was being assisted by his servant to a shell-hole, where he might bandage his leg in comparative safety, when he was shot through the head and killed instantly.